[ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

[Eric Lilja]

Corinna Vinschen skrev:
> On Feb 13 21:02, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> So, barring any catastrophic problems with the current released version
>>> of the Cygwin DLL, the last Cygwin version with support for
>>> non-Windows-NT class versions of Windows will be 1.5.24-2.
>> And approximately what is the timeframe to 1.7.0; weeks, months, next
>> year?  Is HEAD stable enough for those not working on cygwin1.dll to be
>> testing?
> 
> Months.  It's stable enough now but it's constantly changing.  Stability
> in snapshots is not guaranteed.
> 
> Exciting new stuff so far (IMHO):
> 
> - New blocking socket code
> - getaddrinfo/getnameinfo/freeaddrinfo
> - IPv6 (>= XP, 2K w/ IPv6 Helper Lib)
> - POSIX advisory functions (posix_fallocate, posix_fadvise,
>   posix_memalign, posix_madvise)
> - Treat directory reparse points and native symlinks as symlinks
> - Up to 128 SCSI disk block devices
> - New setuid method which allows to logon without password and being
>   recognized correctly also by native Windows applications
> - More POSIXy unlink/rmdir behaviour
> - Resolver functions from minires now part of Cygwin
> - New struct ifconf, plus /proc/net/if_inet6 using unambiguos interface
>   GUID name of Windows (>= XP SP1)
> - Multicast support (>= XP SP1)
> - POSIX shared memory objects
> - POSIX message queues (coming today)
> 
> More to come.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

Corinna, I love you! I'm so excited about these changes!

- Eric


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